Last week the Minister for Energy and Climate Graham Stuart announced that the Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding will launch no later than 27th February 2023. Liveaboard boaters,including many on permanent moorings, and many other off-grid households living in vehicles, caravans and on the land will be waiting even longer for the support that most people got around 4 months ago, including second home owners for both of their homes
This is extremely disappointing news – please write to your MP using this template letter: Template letter to MPs re Energy Bills Support Scheme
If you don’t have a permanent address, your MP is the MP for where you are now; use a nearby postcode such as a boatyard, Post Office or pub and say you live on a boat with no fixed address. You don’t have to be registered to vote to contact an MP. To find your MP, see http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/ or http://www.writetothem.com/
The MPs on the K&A are:
Wera Hobhouse (Bath)
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset) (Dundas to Bathampton, plus Keynsham, Saltford etc)
Michelle Donelan (Chippenham) (Dundas to Sells Green)
Danny Kruger (Devizes) (Foxhangers to Froxfield)
Laura Farris (Newbury) (Hungerford to Tyle Mill)
Alok Sharma (Reading West)
All of the above MPs are Conservatives except the Liberal Democrat Wera Hobhouse.
See also
https://www.werahobhouse.co.uk/news/2023/01/the_government_abandons_off_grid_homes_once_again
https://www.gov.uk/get-help-energy-bills/offgrid-park-mobile-care-home
If you live on a mooring with an electricity hook-up, see the information on these pages
https://www.gov.uk/get-help-energy-bills/pay-electricity-with-rent
and
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